ous to themselves; nor by
placing their Arcana's in the Shops of those Apothecaries they
commonly make use of; nor by recommending their Patients to such
Apothecaries they intrust their secrets with. For then great
complaints are made that the Physicians carry away their Customers,
and take away their livelyhood, affirming they are willing to fetch
them from the prescribing Doctors Apothecaries. To which I answer,
that they do fetch them, but perhaps not always; since I have heard
them often say, these secrets were but the Medicines of the London
Dispensatory disguised under new names, to the discredit of the
Physicians that prescribed them. And I well remember some of them have
neglected to fetch from my house, not far from their own, some of my
preparations, though they had them gratis, for the fetching; whereby
the Patients have suffered, and thought I neglected them, 'till they
were rectified by another Visit. Nay one of them told me, he had
rather dy with his own Shop-Medicines, then be cured with my
Magistrals: much more would he have said of Patients, manifestly
preferring his own profit before their lives; a most Unchristian
saying!

One singular advantage such a Physician will have, that the slanders
of the Apothecaries will appear to be malicious, as being raised
against such as act contrary to their profit.

By this means Physicians will unite against the common Enemy, will
contribute mutual assistance, and communicate more freely to one
another their practice and remedies; and also the frauds and unlawful
practices of the Apothecaries, will conceal the counsels, and act
whatsoever may tend to the advance of their Art; and Patients also
will discover the Apothecaries censures, and practices against the
Physicians and their prescriptions.

Hereby that great interest will decay Apothecaries have in Families
for their petty officiousnesses (which Physicians not to displease
them have put them upon) these will be taught Nurses, and the
assistants, and which are by some of these as well, certainly more
diligently performed then by the Apothecaries.

Hereby the filii Artis, or younger Physicians, will sooner come into a
better and more setled practice, and not be beholden to Apothecaries
to bring them Patients wherewith they often upbraid them, and glory
amongst themselves and to other persons, that they introduced such and
such a Physician.

Hereby Chirurgeons will be restored to some of their employment no